Harwell seeking AG response to questions over state's charter law

5:52 PM,
Aug. 26, 2013

Beth Harwell

Written by

Joey Garrison
| The Tennessean

Republican House Speaker Beth Harwell says she's seeking the opinion of the state's attorney general on questions posed by a Metro Nashville Public Schools attorney on the constitutionality of the state's charter school law.

"We're in the process of that now," she said.

The Tennessean reported last week on a legal memorandum that Washington, D.C., attorney John Borkowski drafted for MNPS officials. Borkowski concluded that Tennessee's decade-old charter law "seems to impose increased costs on local governments with no offsetting subsidy from the state," which he said violates the ...